Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:55:16 +0100 From: "Bradley T. Hughes" <bhughes@FreeBSD.org> To: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Cc: "=?utf-8?Q?freebsd-cloud=40freebsd.org?=" <freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: resizing a FreeBSD 12.1 vm on Azure Message-ID: <E0199A6C-A4B7-4443-9659-2ED461EF2FAA@getmailspring.com> In-Reply-To: <X%2BFBrmy0Ob4wLQUV@bastion.zyxst.net> References: <X%2BFBrmy0Ob4wLQUV@bastion.zyxst.net>
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On Dec 22 2020, at 1:45 am, tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote: > Hello, Howdy! > Has anyone ever resized a freebsd vm on Azure? I don't mean just the > disks. > Really the whole point is to have more CPU and RAM. I have the option > to do > this via their portal, just select whats required and hit 'resize' but > I'm > a bit hesitant. I guess it'll work on a windows VM but anything else? Yes, I do this all the time. I run a poudriere builder in Azure, and normally I only use the D4as_v4 VM size. Sometimes, though, I resize to a D16as_v4 to be able to build the www/node* ports more quickly. I just resize it using the az CLI: $ az vm resize --name poudriere --resource-group poudriere --size Standard_D16as_v4 > If you did manage to do this, did you need to shut the VM down before > resizing it? Was your external IP preserved or did it force you to > have > another one? Did you have to run anything else, like growfs? Yes, to resize, the VM has to be rebooted. I haven't payed attention to whether my public IP is preserved or not (I access the VM using the DNS name I configured in the portal). My gut feeling is that the IP is preserved, just like it is across normal reboots. I haven't resized the root volume on the VM. Instead, I have a second volume attached with ZFS on it, and I put everything that matters on that. > The author of https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/azure-vm.62440/ tried > to do this in 2017 but wasn't able to at the time. > > thanks, > -- > J. -- Bradley T. Hughes bhughes@FreeBSD.org
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